Tomislav Nikolic

News about Tomislav Nikolic, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 22, 2015

Serbian officials say plunge of Pres Tomislav Nikolic's plane was caused by co-pilot, who spilled coffee in cockpit and accidentally activated emergency switch; plane returned safely to Belgrade. MORE

Apr. 18, 2015

Serbian officials confirm that government plane carrying Pres Tomislav Nikolic experienced 60-second plunge after engine failed, leading to cancellation of meeting with Pope Francis. MORE

May. 21, 2012

Tomislav Nikolic, nationalist and former cemetery supervisor, is elected president of Serbia; surprise victory casts doubt on whether country will remain on its path toward the European Union or look increasingly eastward toward Russia. MORE

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Using materials prepared by inmates in Hungarian prisons, 900 soldiers will build a fence along Hungary's border with Serbia by December to stem the torrent of migrants, officials said Thursday — a project critics are comparing to Communist-era...

Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have condemned the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide to mark the 20th anniversary of the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

July 8, 2015, Wednesday

Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution Wednesday that would have condemned the 1995 massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war as a "crime of genocide," saying that singling out the Bosnian Serbs for a war crime would create greater division...

July 8, 2015, Wednesday

Serbia warned that a resolution commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, which the United Nations Security Council is due to discuss on Tuesday, would only widen ethnic divides in neighbouring Bosnia.

June 28, 2015, Sunday

Serbia on Sunday unveiled a monument to Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in Sarajevo helped ignite World War I and still provokes controversy in the ethnically-divided Balkans.

June 22, 2015, Monday

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic canceled his first official visit to Bosnia on Monday after a Muslim Bosniak member of the country's inter-ethnic presidency opposed it over the arrest of a wartime Bosniak commander.